After the Australian Labour
Government, under pressure from the Australian
Jewish community, refused permission for David
Irving to make a third tour of the country in 1993,
he produced a video at a studio in South Africa,
and shipped it to Australia. Attempts by the
Australian Jewish commuity to ban it included
placing hidden microphones bugs in the room of the
video censorship authority. Related stories:

INTRODUCTION
BY AUSTRALIAN PRODUCERS:
The video you are about
to see, an address taped by British historian
David Irving, concerns one of the most
amazing attempts of thought control this
century.

The attempt to prevent David Irving from
visiting and lecturing in Australia, following a
similar ban in Canada, raises grave questions for
the supporters of freedom everywhere.

Why is there an internationally orchestrated
campaign against David Irving at this time?

This has never happened before.

A prodigious writer, Irving has had over 20
major historical works to his credit, starting with
his best seller "The
Destruction of Dresden" in 1963.

Irving's works have been published by
prestigious publishing houses such as Macmillan,
William Collins, Simon and Schuster, Hodder and
Stoughton and Michael Joseph.

While some of his works have been described as
"controversial", his works generally have been
favourably reviewed. His major work, "Hitler's
War", will be found in most university
libraries around the world and in military
academies.

Well known British historian, A. J. P.
Taylor, best known for his "Origins of the
Second World War", has described Irving as "a
patient researcher of unrivalled industry and
success", while major establishment historian
Hugh Trevor-Roper has said that "no praise
could be too high for Irving's indefatigable,
scholarly industry".

A master of research in the field of original
documents, Irving was the man who publicly, at the
famous press conference in Hamburg on April 25,
1983, at the launching of the alleged "Hitler
Diaries", exposed
them as a forgery and a hoax. Based on the
assurance of Hugh Trevor-Roper, the Murdoch press
had paid an enormous sum for the alleged diaries
which they had commenced to serialise.

David Irving visited Australia in 1986, for a lecture
tour associated with the publication by Veritas publishing
of the paper back edition of
"Uprising", his work on
the Hungarian anti-Communist Revolution of 1956. This had
first been published in 1981 in the United Kingdom by the
well known publishing house of Hodder and Stoughton Ltd.

The following year, 1987, Irving returned to Australia
for the launch of "Churchill's
War", also published by Veritas.

During both the 1986 and '87 Australian tours by Irving,
there was no suggestion that the British historian, by his
presence, had threatened any civil disorders or violated any
Australian laws.

Irving had also conducted several Canadian lecture tours
without any problems, except some protests organised by
Zionist activists.

David Irving was scheduled to commence a lecture of
Australia on March 17, 1993, coming direct from South
Africa, where he was finalising his latest major
work, Goebbels. Mastermind of
the Third Reich which was commissioned by
Macmillan.
However, yielding to an immense Zionist Jewish campaign
which blatantly demanded that Irving not be allowed to visit
Australia, the then Australian Immigration Minister, Mr
Gerry Hand, after some delay, ruled that Irving be
denied a visa to enter
Australia.

Prior to Irving being informed of the decision, the
Zionist newspaper, the Australian
Jewish News, had already claimed that Hand had
assured Zionist lobbyists that Irving was being denied a
visa.

This was a clear breach of confidentiality concerning
Australian visa applications.

Leading libertarians, including some unsympathetic to
what they believed to be Irving's views, were shocked by
what they saw as an unprecedented violation of freedom of
speech in Australia.

While stressing that he was no supporter of David
Irving's views, the president of the Queensland Council of
Civil Liberties, Mr Terry O'Gorman, called for the
immediate overturning of the ban, describing it as
"obnoxious" and "the equivalent of the banning of free
speech in the section of the Australian community. A number
of academics expressed their disquiet about the Irving ban.
Typical of the protests was that of Professor J.
Gregory, former Professor of Geography
(Incorrect description) at the
University of Melbourne, who said that he was writing in
defence of the honourable principles of free speech" which
he said was the basis of the Australian democratic
system.

Mr John Bennett, president of the Australian Civil
Liberties Union and author of the well known annual
publication "Your Rights", commenting on the claim that
David Irving's presence in Australia might be disruptive,
pointed out that he himself chaired two well-advertised and
well-attended public meetings for Irving during his previous
visits to Australia and there was not even one interjection.
There was no incitement to racial violence. He felt that
Irving's views on the Holocaust should be publicly
discussed.

A major encouraging feature of all this, was the
unanimous attitude of the daily press of Australia, which
said the ban should be removed.

The Melbourne Age said,

"the Federal Government's decision not to allow
the controversial British historian to revisit Australia,
is understandable. But it is neither courageous nor
right. The Government was under strong pressure from the
Jewish community to exclude him, but the reasons given
fall short of convincing. To deny entry to David Irving,
suggests a national immaturity in tolerating the
expression of unpopular opinions and reeks of political
poltroonery by a Government unwilling to risk votes".

The Brisbane Courier-Mail
stated that David Irving had an "inalienable right to
state his case, and any Australians who wish to, have an
equal right to hear him state it". One of the most
forthright editorials opposing the Irving ban was that of
the Herald-Sun in Melbourne,
which said that "the ban was an assault on free speech which
should be reversed", commenting

"the ban makes a nonsense of the Government's
censorious hectoring of other countries for the denial of
human rights including the right of free speech. By
refusing Mr Irving's entry the Government is indulging in
the son of behaviour it claims to find so abhorrent in
others."

Obviously stunned by this type of press editorial
comment, Foreign Affairs Minister Senator Gareth
Evans, who has prided himself on his libertarian
philosophy, desperately sought to justify the ban by citing
what he described as "the particular volatility that exists
in the community at election times." Presumably the Foreign
Minister overlooked the fact David Irving's tour was
scheduled to start after the elections held on March 13, and
not before.

One of the most disturbing features of this extraordinary
affair was that of some politicians, the Australian Democrat
senators were amongst the first to demand that Irving be
banned, while following the ban, the Liberal National Party
Opposition through its then shadow Minister for Immigration,
Mr Philip Ruddock, endorsed what the Labour
government had done. All this raises the question of, who is
running Australia.

Well-known and respected columnist for the
Weekend Australian, Humphrey
McQueen, was one of the more courageous journalists who
attempted to answer this question. Bluntly stating in his
column of February 20-21, that the ban is

"political in the meanest sense, because even
without the election, the Labour party is terrified of
losing votes and donations from the local Zionists.
Presumably, the other parties are also terrified for the
same reasons."

Not
surprisingly, allegations like these, together with the
wide-spread publicity about the Irving affair, started to
create some unease among the relatively small Australian
Jewish community. There were suggestions that Zionist
leaders like Mr Isi Leibler
[right] had gone too
far.

Prominent Melbourne Jewish leader, Mr Peter
Isaacson, came out in his own journal, the suburban
Melbourne Southern Cross
stating that he did not agree with his fellow
co-religionists who sought the Irving ban, and that the
Minister for Immigration would have served both democracy
and the Australian Jewish community better if he had allowed
David Irving to visit Australia. He urged that the new
minister reverse the Hand decision so that Irving's
preposterous propositions can be demolished.

Irving agrees with this attitude and seeks to have his
views and findings tested by rational debate. The
wide-spread publicity concerning the Irving ban eventually
forced Zionist leaders to change their tactics, claiming
that as Irving's books sold freely the question of freedom
of speech did not arise. It was claimed that Irving was a
threat because he was a rabble rousing leader of a growing
international neo-Nazi movement.

As David Irving points out, there are no books of his on
the Holocaust selling, because he has written no such books
and he challenges the Isi Leiblers to produce any evidence
that he is a Neo-Nazi, a racist, or engaged in
rabble-rousing.

The
Zionists' careless handling of the truth and the manner in
which any journalists who admit they have not read one word
of Irving's books repeat what in many cases is blatant
lying, leaves unanswered the question of why there is an
orchestrated international campaign against David Irving.
Have his researches taken him too close to some explosive
revelations which the Zionist Jews fear being discussed?

In this recording you can hear and see what David Irving
is really saying and then make up your own mind.